Voter ID laws: Everyone has an ID, right? Nope

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Milwaukee-Journal Sentinal today
http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/news/1...rt=newestfirst

The latest study linking support for voter ID laws to their feelings toward African-Americans is not surprising.
By James Causey of the Journal Sentinel
July 23, 2012 11:02 a.m

In the study by the University of Delaware’s Center for Political Communication, respondents were asked several questions, and their answers were used to create a spectrum of "racial resentment."

The more resentment people had toward blacks, the more likely they were to support voter ID laws.

So basically, the study suggests that if you really dislike blacks, you really support voter ID laws.



That's interesting, because at the core of voter ID laws is race. There is little voter fraud. Last week, a second judge declared Wisconsin's voter ID law unconstitutional, almost guaranteeing that the ID requirement will not be in place for elections this fall.

Dane County Circuit Judge David Flanagan wrote that the state's requirement that all voters show photo ID at the polls creates a "substantial impairment of the right to vote" guaranteed by the state constitution.

In March, he issued an injunction temporarily blocking the law because the plaintiffs - the Milwaukee branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the immigrant rights group Voces de la Frontera - were likely to succeed in their arguments.

Flanagan made that injunction permanent in the 20-page decision he issued Tuesday because he found the impact of the law hit disproportionately hard on the elderly, indigent and minorities.

The judge made the right decision based on the fact that 220,000 people, according to state estimates, don't have the proper ID to vote.